James Carlson wrote: > Peter Memishian writes: >> > I've been down that road before with in.ndpd, dhcpagent, and pppd. I >> > don't think it works and can't really be made to work, because you >> > need to either assign a distinct UID to this process (we only have 100 >> > total that can be reserved over the whole system, and many already are >> > demanding them, so this is a losing proposition) >> >> I'm not sure that's true. Yes, only UIDs less than 100 are reserved. >> However, unless that UID can be seen by another system (e.g., the owner of >> a file through NFS), couldn't it be dynamically assigned to any available >> slot in the normal UID space during installation time? > > Maybe. I think you'd have to establish precedent to do it, and there > are no existing tools that allow dynamic UID creation at upgrade or > install time (no alternate root for 'useradd'), and I don't think it'd > work right with packaging if you have to deliver any file system > objects owned by this UID. >
Actually, the user action in IPS can do exactly that, though I don't think we're using that particular feature yet. Dave _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
